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Andy, if you elect yourself to be a sales representative for FSF-China,
please accept my genuine applause.

But i have to say you must device a right strategy for promoting
healthy FSF
babyfood in a relatively new market. It's aweful silly to
publish an ads of selling FSF
babyfood ready for China market on a journal whose readers are mostly
nutritionists specialized in the design of
FSF food chains.

Simply putting out
postings like "hey, we have a FSF babyfood ready for China market,
please buy from us and spread words around!" wouldn't help you much. It
seems more appropiate for you to write up postings from a different
angle. To solicit support, you should ask questions like: i want
to promote and sell FSF babyfood in China, what nutrients should i put
in my recipe?
Can anyone share their marketing data, ups and downs of selling FSF
product and service in other parts of asia market?

I could be wrong. Maybe you are a good engineer but your approach to
promote and sell your product is very lame.

OFFTOPIC: In reply to your
request for editing/deleting features, editing the article can render
many, if not all, responses to it invalid or confusing. I'd rather there
be a large neon warning screaming at you that once you've posted, it's
posted, no going back, etc. ;-) Your diary makes a good
peer-review-before-posting area, if you really need one.

However, there probably ought to be a multi-posting filter, as this
has happened a few times now. Preferably, something that just prevents
someone from posting a main-page article more than once in a ten minute
period or so, but at the very least, an exact-duplicate filter ought to
be in place to keep the front page from cluttering up and pushing
current articles out of the way.

The software could allow an author to delete an article iff there
have been no replies yet, for up to some time period (say an hour)
after posting. That would give people a chance to clean up mistakes.

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